AR Poster

I was inspired by my trip to Tokyo, Japan two years ago. My friend Miyo and I went to the Ikebukuro Sunshine Aquarium and had a great time there. I took photos below randomly and aimlessly, but when I gathered them together and put them in a particular order, I felt like there was an interesting story being told about children and fish. This week, we got to learn about the Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Realities and are required to create a poster with Augmented Reality. That's where the story comes in.

Ricky and I picked the theme of Point of View. I decided to tell a story about children, the dog, and ocean creatures "watching" each other from different points of view. You can see a dog is watching children watching the aquarium. From another side point of view, the fishes are watching children watched by a dog watched by us. Also, as an audience of this poster, you are invited to the "watching" game – you are watching a dog watching children watching the aquarium. Be careful — the killer whale is watching you watching a dog watching children.

Specifically, I started with a vertical blank page and searched for children's pictures using Pinterest. I edited them in photoshop and aligned them in different parts of the bottom half of the page. I also hand drew three stairs to hold the position of the children's group. For the movie, I tried to create an animation showing the movement of fishes and mammals with After Effects. I followed the tutorial to create and animate 3D fish using the 'Schools' After Effects compositions. Then I edited the animation, adding filters and music, which fit with the movement of the animation. I took a screenshot of the video and that is the aquarium on the top half of the poster. A plant was added next to the dog to match the color palette of the poster. Here is the AR poster on the theme of Point of View.

After getting the poster and the movie done, I inserted them into EyeJack. In this step, I found out if I added a movie with sound, it will not work, which shows "Error transcoding animation." Then I separated the video and audio into two pieces and inserted them into the app again. The second error has resulted from the fact that my audio is 1s longer than the video. If you are interested in this "watching game," download the app from EyeJack and scan the QR code here. Have fun!